Portal Tomb by Tubbrid
The collapsed Tomb portal of Tubbrid is located about 20.0 m west of the River Pil, in a narrow valley, south of Grantstown in the townland of Tubbrid ( Irish Tiobraid ) in County Kilkenny in Ireland . In the British Isles, portal tombs are megalithic systems in which two equally high, upright stones with a door stone in between form the front of a chamber, which is covered with a sometimes huge capstone.
The east-west oriented portal Tomb is located in the middle of the remains of a cairn about 10.0 m in diameter, on a slope. The 4.5 m long, 2.6 m wide and 1.4 m thick capstone has broken into two parts. Its east side is supported by a single 1.7 m high, comparatively delicate portal stone. The side stones and the end stone have fallen inwards and lie under the capstone.
Nearby is the ring fort of Barrabehy ( Irish Barr Beithe ).
See also
literature
- Kenneth McNally: Standing Stones and other monuments of early Ireland . Appletree, Belfast 1984, ISBN 0-86281-121-X .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 36.1 ″ N , 7 ° 14 ′ 20.6 ″ W.